Franchot Tone
Born: 1905-02-27 in Niagara Falls, New York, USA
Died: 1968-09-18
Known For: Acting
Biography
Franchot Tone (February 27, 1905 – September 18, 1968) was an American stage, film, and television actor, star of Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and many other films through the 1960s. In the early 1960s Tone appeared in character roles on TV dramas like Bonanza, Wagon Train, The Twilight Zone, and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. Description above from the Wikipedia article Franchot Tone, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Filmography
1996
- Joan Crawford: Always the Star as Self (archive footage)
1991
- Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker as actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1989
1976
- That's Entertainment, Part II as (archive footage)
1972
- Hollywood: The Dream Factory as Self (archive footage)
1970
- Brasileiros em Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
1968
- Nobody Runs Forever as Ambassador Townsend
- Shadow Over Elveron as Barney Conners
1965
- Run for Your Life as Judge Taliaferro Wilson
- In Harm's Way as CINCPAC I
- Mickey One as Rudy Lopp
- The Making of A Movie as Self
1964
- The Big Parade of Comedy as Gifford in 'Bombshell' (archive footage)
- How to Make a French Dish as John K. Montasy Jr
- See How They Run as Baron Frood
1962
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Rudolph Bitzner
- The Virginian as Murdoch
- Advise & Consent as The President
1961
- Ben Casey as Daniel Freeland
- Witchcraft: The Doll in Brambles as Your Host
1960
- The Shape of the River as Mark Twain
1959
- Bonanza as Denver McKee
- The Twilight Zone as Col. Archie Taylor
1958
- Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse as Candy Lombe
- Bitter Heritage as Frank James
1957
- Uncle Vanya as Dr. Mikhail Lvovich Astroff
1956
- Armchair Theatre as Joe
- The Little Foxes as Horace
- Rendezvous in Black as Hugh Strickland
1955
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Oliver Mathews
- Too Old for Dolls as Mike Ramsay
1954
- Climax! as Henry Hutton
- Twelve Angry Men as Juror #3
1953
- General Electric Theater as Charles Proteus Steinmetz
1952
- Four Star Playhouse as Ben
1951
- Tales of Tomorrow
- Here Comes the Groom as Wilbur Stanley
1950
- Robert Montgomery Presents
- The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
- Lux Video Theatre as Meredith Whitehouse
1949
- Lights Out
- Suspense as Markheim
- The Man on the Eiffel Tower as Johann Radek
- Jigsaw as Howard Malloy
- Without Honor as Dennis Williams
1948
- The Philco Television Playhouse
- Studio One as Juror #3
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- Every Girl Should Be Married as Roger Sanford
- I Love Trouble as Stuart Bailey
1947
- Honeymoon as David Flanner
- Her Husband's Affairs as William Weldon
- Lost Honeymoon as Johnny Gray
1946
- Because of Him as Paul Taylor
1945
- That Night with You as Paul Renaud
1944
- Phantom Lady as John 'Jack' Marlow
- The Hour Before the Dawn as Jim Hetherton
- Dark Waters as Dr. George Grover
1943
- Five Graves to Cairo as Cpl. John J. Bramble / Paul Davos
- Pilot #5 as George Braynor Collins
- The Voice That Thrilled the World as Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage)
- His Butler's Sister as Charles Gerard
- True to Life as Fletcher Marvin
1942
- Star Spangled Rhythm as John
- The Wife Takes a Flyer as Christopher Reynolds
1941
- This Woman Is Mine as Robert Stevens
- She Knew All the Answers as Mark Willows
- Nice Girl? as Richard Calvert
1940
- Trail of the Vigilantes as Kansas
1939
- Fast and Furious as Joel Sloane
1938
- Three Comrades as Otto Koster
- Three Loves Has Nancy as Robert 'Bob' Hanson
- Man-Proof as Jimmy Kilmartin
- The Girl Downstairs as Paul Wagner
- Love Is a Headache as Peter Lawrence
- Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 6 as Self
1937
- Quality Street as Dr. Valentine Brown
- The Bride Wore Red as Giulio
- Between Two Women as Allan Meighan
- They Gave Him a Gun as James 'Jimmy' Davis
- The Romance of Celluloid as Self (archive footage)
1936
- Suzy as Terry
- The Gorgeous Hussy as John H. Eaton
- The King Steps Out as Emperor Franz Josef
- Love on the Run as Barnabus Pells
- The Unguarded Hour as Sir Alan Dearden
- Exclusive Story as Dick Parton
1935
- Mutiny on the Bounty as Roger Byam
- Reckless as Robert 'Bob' Harrison Jr.
- Dangerous as Don Bellows
- The Lives of a Bengal Lancer as Forsythe
- One New York Night as Foxhall Ridgeway
- No More Ladies as Jim 'Jimsy Boysie' Salston
1934
- The Girl from Missouri as T.R. Paige, Jr.
- Sadie McKee as Michael
- The World Moves On as Richard Girard - 1825 / Richard Girard - 1914
- Moulin Rouge as Douglas Hall
- Gentlemen Are Born as Bob Bailey
- Straight Is the Way as Benny
1933
- Bombshell as Gifford Middleton
- Stage Mother as Warren Foster
- Dancing Lady as Tod Newton
- Midnight Mary as Tom
- Today We Live as Ronnie Boyce-Smith
- The Stranger's Return as Guy Crane
- Gabriel Over the White House as Hartley Beekman - Secretary to the President
1932
- The Wiser Sex as Phil Long